Drug Testing for Athletes Some pro athletes take drugs such as steroids to have an unfair advantage in their sport. Steroids are a drug that makes you build up more muscle. When your muscles get torn down, steroids help build them up. This helps so you can build up muscle faster than usual. Professional athletes should be drug tested because it could boost their play, it would make them stop using drugs or to never start using them, and it could also cause unhealthy side effects. First off athletes could be using performance enhancing drugs that boost their play. Using these drugs is very wrong to do and would make them a fake athlete. Athletes are not relying on their own talents if they are using drugs. “Some pro athletes use steroids and
